PlayStation restricts how developers can give upgrades to "PS5" editions

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Sony have restricted how and what developers can offer people upgrading from a PS4 edition to a PS5 edition of a game post launch.

Background

Rust is a multiplayer survival video game developed by Facepunch Studios. It was first released in early access in December 2013 and received its full release in February 2018.

Console versions of Rust was released in May 2021 for the PS4 and Xbox One, with the PS5 and Xbox Series versions being released in June 2025. After much speculation, on 24 April 2025, the co-developers Double11, announced that they would be offerring a free new generation upgrade for users with the previous generation game.

Incident

On 18 June 2025, it was finally confirmed that the free upgrades could not be completed on PlayStation until the full release date of 26 June. This meant that deluxe & ultimate edition owners, who were supposed to get 7 days early access starting on 19 June could not access the game until 26 June, unless they paid full price. In addition PlayStation players were only given the standard edition, instead of an upgrade to the edition they owned, however Double11 was able to add the other benefits into players accounts from the backend.

Consumer response

The consumer response was mainly a lot of anger to the Rust Console team rather than PlayStation, this is seen by a lot of the comments on their posts and the trailer for the rust console new gen version.